Yes, I will have a conversation with him. Here is Wikipedia:
Philip Ball (born 1962) is a British science writer. For more than twenty years, he has been editor-in-chief of the magazine Nature, for which he continues to write regularly. He regularly contributes to Perspective review and columnist for World of chemistry, Natural materialsAnd The future of the BBC.
Ball holds a degree in chemistry from Oxford and a doctorate in physics from University of Bristol.
He has written more scientific books than I can count (see Wikipedia), on a wide variety of subjects, and I really enjoyed his latest book. How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology. How many people have demonstrated a greater total knowledge of science than him?
So what should I ask him?